Can I just say that I very very very much enjoy owning a comic book store with this kind of range and diversity? For I do!
SAGA v1 is still selling, some 18 months after its initial release something very close to a copy a day. That’s…. well, it’s kind of unprecedented, really.

Still, one game you could play at home is: “How many of these best-sellers are not actually in print at this moment?” It isn’t QUITE double digits, but it’s kind of close….

Sort it by dollars, and it changes a lot, and here you can really see what price points can do for the bottom line – clearly, you have to sell far fewer $60 books than $9.99 books to make the more money…

Meanwhile, across The City at Outpost, here is what they look like – but at the end of the day, this is just a tiny fraction of the main store…. So far. The top is about 1/5th, while anything under #62 wouldn’t have even made the sales chart from Experience (that’s like 3 copies here, which is lower for now – but I’m building the section and selection) the top 25 are meaningful and profitable numbers, however.

It is still early over at Outpost for Book Format work (I was flatly told “Outpost can’t sell Graphic Novels” – but it is almost a quarter of business), but I’m pretty much OK with what we’ve done so far. These numbers will climb as the stock level increases, and as people come to understand that we’re supporting the category on the south side of town. But look: a lot of the same trends are there: smart genre comics for adults, strong kids comics, they sell at both stores.

I’m not going to do a mix chart because, frankly, Outpost’s numbers don’t change Experience’s placements by any significant amount because there’s just that much of a difference in scale. Maybe at the year-end report?

That’s how two comic stores look to me at the moment; what do you think?